Fear of blocking the joint proposal from a college of commissioners presented by Ursula von der Leyen forces European socialists to act to avoid Teresa Ribera’s veto, by proposing to the “popular” to support all their commissioners. So far, the President of the European Commission (EC) also maintains her support for the third vice-president of the government and Minister of Ecological Transition. Meanwhile, sources from the Executive told laSexta that Ribera “is a rock” and that the “The PP will not erode its candidacy”.
This scenario occurs after the People’s Party launches an all-out war veto the socialist candidate to the position of Vice-President of the Clean, Fair and Competitive Transition and responsible for the Competition portfolio within the EC. Those of Alberto Núñez Feijóo seek to make the minister co-responsible for the management of DANA to divert attention from the president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón.
This rejection generated a clash between the two main political families in Brussels, “popular” and social-democrat. However, sources in Genoa confirmed to laSexta that, “indeed”, the group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) contacted Manfred Weber this Saturday. to inform him that he would support all the pending commissioners, including the one proposed by Giorgia Meloni’s far-right party, if the European People’s Party (EPP) supports Ribera.
While waiting to know what will happen to the future of Pedro Sánchez’s third vice-president, Executive sources indicated that Teresa Ribera “is not going to evaluate the maneuvers of the PP I’m going to Brussels“. Likewise, they emphasized that she “is preparing her appearance to shed light on everything that happened.” And they are direct on her candidacy: “It’s a rock. The PP will not erode its candidacyhas”.
Thus, the veto lifted by the heavyweights of the PP keeps the formation of the new European Commission on hold. Feijóo, who coordinated his action with the spokesperson of the European People’s Party, Manfred Weber, managed to convince his European colleagues to condition Ribera’s appointment on her consent to resign if she was prosecuted due to the management of DANA.
Furthermore, the leader of the PP asks the Government to withdraw the candidacy of the Minister of Ecological Transition and to propose another name which arouses greater support. The other option considered is that the PP requests that the “aptitude (of Ribera) for the secret vote by the members of the parliamentary committees which examine it in the European Parliament”.
However, these movements Feijóo endangers the new European Commission He begins his mandate on December 1, as planned, and leaves in suspense the coalition of pro-European parties which, with the Greens, gave Ursula von der Leyen her second mandate last July.
